Kevin.dubienski
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Speedy deletion nomination of Donna Kennedy-Glans edit
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Your article edit
The main problem with the article was that read as if it was promoting (a) Ms Kennedy-Glans and (b) her campaign. Wikipedia requires a neutral point of view and is specifically not for promotion of any kind - see also WP:NOBBLE. You mention a "potential nomination contest between Conservative parties" which makes me wonder whether you have political reasons for wanting an article. If so, you have a problem - the better the article is as a campaign document, the less likely it is to be acceptable.
If you are associated with Ms Kennedy-Glans or her campaign, read:
My advice would be to cut out most of the second part of the article. Just summarise who she is and what she has done, with less about her views. Mention her book, don't summarise it. The long section about the campaign is a problem - it makes the article look like a WP:COATRACK - a term for an article ostensibly about one subject but really designed to promote another. If the campaign is notable on its own right, then write a (neutral, not campaigning) article about it; but don't give it more than a few lines in Ms Kennedy-Glans' article.
I suggest you do a draft in your user-space at User:Kevin.dubienski#Donna Kennedy-Glans, and then post a request at WP:Requests for feedback to get other editors' views before moving it into the main encyclopedia.
A point of technique: if you put an asterisk in front of each of your list of references, they will appear in a neat column rather than a jumbled mess. The reference numbers in the main text look as though you meant them to be "in-line references", which is good, but see WP:CITE for how to do it properly. Briefly, you put the reference in the text at the appropriate point bracketed by <ref> and </ref>, and then at the end of the article put {{reflist}}, and it all formats itself. It's tricky, and you need to use "Show preview" a lot until you have got it right.
Also, when posting on talk pages, it is useful to end with four "tilde" characters ~~~~, which the system converts into a signature of your username and the time and date - like this: JohnCD (talk) 18:36, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Feedback archived edit
Hello! A while ago, you requested some feedback for an article at Feedback forum. Because it has been up there a while, and you've received some at least useful responses, I have now archived the replies in Wikipedia:Requests for feedback/Archive/27. Please do not edit that page though; if you require further feedback, add a new request on WP:FEED.
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